Paris-green or dry-powder machine.



J. V. BLAIN & 0. M. MORRIS. PARIS GREEN 0R DRY POWDER MACHINE. v PPLICATION FILED OCT. 25, 1910. 1 1 22,847. Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

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.T.- V. BLAIN & O. M. MORRIS. PARIS GREEN 0R DRY POWDER MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 25. moi

Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

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UNITED s-rA'ggs PATENT QFFICE.

JOHN v. BLAIN), or SPRING LAKE BEACH, AND OTTO M. MORRIS, or SMITHBURG, NEW

. JERSEY.

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Be it known that we, .lonrv V. BLAIN and O'r'ro M. Momma, citizens of the United States, residing. respectively, at Spring Lake Beach and Smithburg, in the. county of lilonmouth and State of how Jersey, have In powder machines and'the main object there-' of is to producea device of this nature that will be eflicient in operation, durable and inexpensive to construct. This device is" to be used when it is necessary to exterminate bugs or any kind of insects that are injurious to plants or any kind of plant-life that are liable to be infested thereby.

A' further object of our device is to provide means to blow powder on a plurality of 1'0ws,o'f plants atthe same time and by the use of our invention the amount of powder used per acre may be regdated from, let us say, for example, one to ten pounds. I

A further object of our invention is to provide means to counteract the effect of the wind in the operation (if spraying the powder throughout a field and also to regulate the height of the spray as by means of the same lever that is used in the regulation of the means for counteracting the effect of the wind. The shifting and hoisting means and the means for regulating the amount of Paris, green, or other powder employed, to be used, may be operated from the seat of the driver at will which is obviously a great ad antage over other devices now' in use; \Vith the above and other objects in view our invention consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts as are described in this specification, illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming a part thereof, and particularly pointed'out 1n the claims hereunto "appended.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of our invention as it would appear when ready for use. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical,

transverse, sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig: 2, looking in the direction of the arrow of partsfabove the bed. Fig. l is a bottom plan view of the invention. Fig. 5 is a detail elevation of the clutch and lever therefor'indicated in Fig.

PAEIS-GREEN OR DRY-P OWDER MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

Application filed October 25. 1910. Serial No. 589,085.

Referring more particularly to the drawlngs, our invention is descrlbed asfollows:

The bed 1 is mounted upon wheels 2-, by means of the hearings 3 and axle l. A seat box or-,i'eceptacle 5, which contziins Paris green or other powder employed. Said receptacle 5 is provided with a spring cover 3 in its upper wall thereby providing means whereby"powder may be placed into' said receptacle. Formed adjacent to and in comnu'lnication with said receptacle by means of openings 4-2 and i3. is afchambei 6 which contains a fan 7, said chamber provided with a plurality of openings Sin its rear wall near the lower edge thereof. Protruding from each of said openings and extending rearward is a pipe 9, said pipes spreading as they extend rearward. each terminating in a distributing nozzle 10. The pipes are secured at their rear ends by means of staples .11, or any other suitable fastening means, to

a shiiltable member or crosspiece 12 slidably or adjustably held to the rear edge of hinged tail board 40 to he hereinafter described. said shiltable member or crosspiece 12 being connected with the hinged tail board by means of pivoted pieces 13 which serve the purpose of "horizontal hinges, whereby the shiftable member or cross piece 12 may be moved horizontally either to the right or left as desired. Said crosspiece may be shifted from the seat of the operator by means of a lever llpivoted thereto at 15, said lever being fulcrumed to the bed 1' at a point 16. i

ltotatably mounted in the honor receptacle 5 upon a spindle 17, is an agitator 18, said'spindle 17 being journaled in bearings 19, one of which is in one'of the side walls of said receptacle, the other being at the upper endof the bracket. 20. Said fan 7 is mounted upon a spindle 21, said spindle being jonrnaled in bearings 22, one of which is in one of the side walls of the box 5, the other being at the upper end of the bracket 23. .Power is transmitted from the shaft 41- to 'a countershaft bl by means of a sprocket chain 25 traveling upon, the large sprocket wheel 26 and the small sprocket wheel 27,

the proper tension being maintained by also transmitted to the spindle 2l by means of a sprocket chain 32 or belt, if preferred, traveling upon the sprockets 33 and 3&, said sprocket 33 being mounted upon a second countershaft 35, which. shaft is rotated by means of the chain 36 traveling upon the sprockets 37 and 38, said shaft 35 being journaled in bearings of the brackets 39.

The sprocket 37 is loosely held upon the shaft 24 but may be placed into engagement therewith by means of a clutch 37, the clutch 37 comprising an enlargement d9 upon said shaft 24: which enlargement is provided with teeth 50 received by the notches 51 in thc'hub 52 of the sprocket 37,

when the sprocket 37 is in engagement with the shaft 24. By the use of a hand lever 53,

having at its lower end a pair of prongs 5 L engaging the neck 05 of the hub 54= the driver is enabled to throw the sprocket into or out of engagement with said shaft 2%]: at will.

That the height of said distributing nozzles 10 may be varied the rear portion 40 or the bed 1 is separated from said bed and 1s hingedly connected thereto by means of the hinges -l1, said portion being adapted to be lowered or raised to whatever degree 1s desired by the manipulation of said lever 14.

In order to regulate the amount ot powder that passes through the opening 42 into the chamber 6 through the passage i3, we have provided a slide 44, which 15 adapted to he slid by the operation of alever 45 fulcrumed to a bifurcated lug 46 secured to the adjacent side wallcof the box Saul lever is pivoted. to the outer edge of the.

slide at 47. A scale 48 indicating the number of pounds of powder that will be used per acre extends from the same side wall of said box as that to which the lever 45 1s fulcrumcd. When a certain amount of powder is desired to be used the handle shifted so that it coincides with the number on the scale indicating the number of pounds per acre that it is desired to utilize.

Herctottore in machines for distributing powdered material, such as Paris green, over growing plants, it has been proposed to feed such material into the path of an air current from a fan or blower, but practical experience with such machines has demonstrated that a substantial portion of the powdered material is carried by the air current back into the receptacle, a certain portion of such material being carried by the air current into and through the distributing pipes.

The foregoing and other objections are overcome in a machine embodying the present invention by a new lorganlzation of 'loosely on a shifting member parts wherein the outlet 43 from the powder receptacle 5 is positioned in coaxial'relation to the shaft of fan 7, whereby the rotation of said fan induces the inflow of powdered material into the eye of the fan, e. at the axis of rotation of said fan. As a result of this novel relation of the outlet to the fan, the powdered material is intimately mixed with the air, 2'. e. the fan acts to beat the material and to generate the air current, so that the powdered material is diffused through the air and is carried by it through distributing tubes 9 and nozzles 10. Manifestly, the air blown by the fan cannot flow into' the receptacle 5, nor dis- .turb the powdered material therein, but, on

the contrary, the air is drawn with the powdered material throughthe axial opening 43 to the fan. It will be noted, further, that the distributing tubes 9, leading from the fan casing, are confined by keepers ll .12, the latter extending crosswise of the machine, at the rear thereof. This shifting member 12 is connected by hinges or pivoted pieces 13 to a tail board 40, the latter being in turn hinged at 511 to the wheeled frame 1. The member 12 is movable bodily in a horizontal direction crosswise of the machine, the hinges or pivoted pieces 13 permitting suchmovement relative to the tail board. horizontal movement of member 12 operates to simultaneously shift the pipes 9 and nozzles 10 to the right or left, as desired. liurtl'iermore, the tail board 40 may be shifted in a vertical direction on the axis ailorded by hinges 41,.and thus the shifting member 12 with the nozzles may be raised or lowered as desired. The horizontal adjustment of the nozzles with member 12, andthe'vertical adjustment of tail board aLOuvith the shifting member and the nozzles, is effected by the single lever 1-1 having a loose connection 16 with the wheeled frame. It is apparent that the lever may be moved to the right or left to move member 12 and nozzles 10 horizontally to the left or right according to the direction in which the lever is shifted, su'ch movement of the lever operating to sinnyltancously.move the nozzles so that the powdered material may be properly blown upon the plants. Fur

.thermore, the lever may be lifted to depress the tail board and the series of nozzles in order to direct the material upon plants of different heights.

The agitator 18 is positioned within the receptacle for operationv directly in the throat leading to the inlet to the fan, so as to stir up and prevent clogging of the mate-. rial. The quantity of material flowing fromthc receptacle into the fan is regulatable by the adjustment of slidable cut-off or valve 4-2, the operating lever 45 for which valve is positioned in cooperative relation Such to a graduated member 48 so as to set the cut-off or valve to various positions according to the pound per acre'it is desired to distribute.

By reference to Fig. 3 of the drawings it will be observed that hopper -5 is provided with a bottom 5, the latter being inclined from one side wall'of the hopper toward the axially positioned inlet 43 to the casing of the blow-er or fan. ,Said bottomb terminatesat one side of the axial inlet so as to produce a space or throat between the inclined bottom 5 and the blower inlet, in which space flows the powdered material from the hopper. This powdered material flows by gravity through the hopper and the inclined bottom of said hopper directs the powdered material into the throat or space next to the blower inlet, whereby the material is fed by gravity to the throat and is drawn by thesuction of the fan through an axial inlet. The regulating slide 42 is adapted to traverse the throat or space between the inclined bottom of the hopper and the blower inlet, whereby the area of "the throat or space is regulatable so as to control the quantity of powdered material flowing to the blower. This powdered material is liable to become clogged and owing mum nature of the material it coagulates in lumps or charges, but, of course, the caked material must be broken up in the throat or hopper so that it will remain in a powdered condition and be free to flow through the blower inlet. In order to break up the mass of material we provide the agitator, the same being in the form of a rota;

tive member 18 on shaft 19. Said member is movable in a plane at a right angle to the axis of the blower inlet and thus the agitator will operate inthe throat or space so dered material, the combination with a wheeled frame, and a tallboard, of a horizontallyslidable-bar in cooperative relation to said tailboard, hinge members connecting .said bar to the tailboard for limiting said bar to movement in a substantially rectilinear path with respect to said wheeled frame, distributing pipes attached directly to the horizontally slidable bar and shiftable sii'nultaneously by the movement thereof, means for blowing air and powdered material through said pipes, and means connected to said bar for moving the latter and the pipes in a direction crosswise of the machine.

2. In a machine for distributing powdered material, the combination with a wheeled frame, of a tailboard'movable-up and down with respect to said wheeled frame, a slidable member connectedto said tailboard for movement up and down therewith, said slidable member being movable horizontally on the tailboard independently of said up and down movement of said tailboard, a plurality of distributing devices connected to and movable with said slidable member, and means operable at will for i1nbeing shiftable horizontally with respect to the tailboard and independently of the up and down movement thereof, a lever connected to impart horizontal sliding movement to the slidable member ina direction crosswise of the machine, a blower, a series of. distributing tubes connected with the blower, and distributing nozzles attached to said tubes and carried on the slidable member so as to be movable simultaneously therew'ith and'in a direction crosswise of the machine In testimony whereof we aiiix, our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

1 JOHN v. BLAIN.

orro M. MORRIS.

\Vitnesses PETER FDRMAN, Hoar-x110 CLAYTON. 

